Tag: Words Above Average
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Along with Gemini, I’ve been developing the Words Above Average metric as an intellectual hygiene filter for online content. We’ve used calculations of lexical density, synthesis score, structural entropy, and durability multiplier, looking for evergreen intellectually stimulating nonfiction content. But I’ve also wanted to create a WAA metric for fiction. How would we adapt the…
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Currently, Arts & Letters Daily set the Gold Standard for the Words Above Average metric, providing us with a “meta-aggregator,” like a radar scanning the current horizon to find the highest-entropy ideas, a superior “Intellectual Hygiene” filter for the present moment. But I wanted to go a bit further and find several more aggregators and…